The Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1983 was conducted on 6 March 1983 to elect members to the Landtag, the state legislature of Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany. |- |colspan=15| |- ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:left;" width=300px colspan=2|Party ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Vote % ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Vote % ± ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ! style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:right;" width=50px |Seats ± |- | width=5px style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Christian Democratic Union | style="text-align:right;" | 51.9 | style="text-align:right;" | +1.8 | style="text-align:right;" | 57 | style="text-align:right;" | +6 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Social Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 39.6 | style="text-align:right;" | –2.7 | style="text-align:right;" | 43 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | The Greens | style="text-align:right;" | 4.5 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | N/A |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Free Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 3.5 | style="text-align:right;" | –2.9 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | –6 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | German Communist Party | style="text-align:right;" | 0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | –0.2 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | National Democratic Party | style="text-align:right;" | 0.1 | style="text-align:right;" | –0.6 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- | style="background-color: " | | style="text-align:left;" | Others | style="text-align:right;" | 0.1 | style="text-align:right;" | –0.4 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | ±0 |- style="background: #E9E9E9" ! style="text-align:left;" colspan=2| Total | 100.0 | — | 100 | ±0 |- | colspan=9 style="text-align:left;" | Source: parties-and-elections.de |} 1983 1983 elections in Germany